TikTok Data Report
Last updated: 2020-07-06 15:00:22
Sampling
- Explore political TikTok (ask people from community)
- Create a list of around ~100 accounts and manually label by ideology
- Create a list of political hashtags (~150 hashtags)
- Sample TikToks that mentioned political hashtags (~33k TikToks)
- Create a list of accounts that mentioned political hashtags (~1000 TikTokers)
- Label all accounts by ideology and content
- In total: +965 accounts identified as either right or left leaning
- Get all TikToks from +965 political accounts
- In total: +228k TikToks
Descriptives
Number of TikToks
## [1] 256708Number of Unique TikTokers
## [1] 982Top 10s Accounts
Most Followed Accounts
Most Diggs
Most Videos
Time Series (per Week)
Weekly TikToks
Diggs per Week (Median)
Plays per Week (Median)
Diggs per Week (Sum)
Plays per Week (Sum)
Comments per Week (Sum)
#biden
#lgbt
#bernie
#maga
#trump
Time Series (cumulative)
Total TikToks
Total Diggs
Total Plays
Total Comments
#biden
#lgbt
#bernie
#blacklivesmatter
#alllivesmatter
#maga
#trump
Distributions (User-Level)
Followers
Plays
Diggs
Comments
Text Analysis
Top Words in TikTok Bios
Top Words in TikTok Descriptions
Transcripts
Top Words in Transcripts
Top Bigrams in Transcripts
Top Trigrams in Transcripts
Top Left/Right Difference Trigrams in Transcripts
Top TikTok Music
Distributions (TikTok-Level)
Duration
Comparisons
Mentions network
Graph shows mention network of TikTok users (mentions often happen when people duet each other). When a right-leaning TikToker mentions another right-leaning TikToker the line is red. For intra left-leaning connection it’s blue. Mentions across party lines are purple.
In the lower-right cluster there is a conservative TikToker @nickvideos who is being piled on by a lot of liberal TikTokers
Duration until 90% of Comments
Distributtion
Log-Scaled
Left-Right Comparison
Labeled User in Hahstag
Cumulative TikToks by political Hashtag
Cumulative TikToks per User
Distribution
Log-Scaled
Comments per Week (Median)